Ron's RV7 Factory: Aveo Switches HOBBS 1476.5 hrs

Ron's RV7 Aircraft Factory

Welcome to my personal blog. This site was created as an informal description of my build progress in the construction of a Van's RV7 aircraft. A place where family/friends/builders/curiosity seekers can follow along. It is not intended to be a detailed description of every step in the building process as that would be much too time consuming. There are plenty of sites that do a great job in that arena, that is not my intention with this site. My intention is for this to be a philisophical/motivational/inspirational account of the emotional ups and downs of the life changing journey...and it will change your life. I hope this will give you an idea, through my eyes, of what its like to make this transformation. A note to other builders, I am not an expert so do not put your safety at risk by attempting anything you see on this site until you have done your own research, or send me an email so we can discuss it. Any deviations from the plans are not approved, nor endorsed by Van's Aircraft or myself. Thanks for visiting.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Aveo Switches HOBBS 1476.5 hrs

I received my Aveo switches...I already had some of the covers and the mount housings, the last part of the puzzle were the switches themselves. I snapped them together...and was very pleased with them...nice, robust switching action. Here you can see, I am trying to do a layout of sorts...I only have ten spaces in the panel so I need to use them wisely. I also want to consider cockpit "flow" with their locations. The ones at the top are the "leftover" ones that don't fit in the ten spaces...I may add some or all of them somewhere else on the panel.

Lighting...these are pretty standard, I don't think there is anything to think about here. The wig-wag function will be controlled by the VP-X unit so I don't think I need a switch for that.

Here is where I am doing my head scratching (notice these switches aren't snapped into their housing just yet)...the battery master, left/right mag and avionics master are also pretty much standard. But what else? Boost pump...starter...maybe. Although, if I go this route, this starter switch will only make my stick starter switch active...i.e., switch Aveo starter button on...then push stick starter to actually activate the starter. That way I don't have a kid (or me) accidentally hit the stick starter by mistake...it takes two deliberate actions. I will not have a key. Still debating this setup however...